Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This room, to which Mrs. Florence Milner, supervisor of the Farnsworth Room, will devote half of her time, contains at present 1,000 volumes, 90 per cent of which are literature. With shelf capacity for almost 2,500 books, considerable additions will be made according to the use and demand. For the present, no books may be taken from the room, but a change in this ruling may be brought about in the future...
Gould. No sooner had Senator Arthur R. Gould of Maine taken his oath of office, a fortnight ago, than did Senator Walsh of Montana demand an investigation of corruption charges against him. Last week, by a vote of 70 to 7, the Senate adopted Mr. Walsh's resolution. Three Republican Senators and two Democrats were appointed to look into the story of a $100,000 "bribe" which Mr. Gould is said to have paid to the Premier of New Brunswick in 1918 in connection with a railroad deal. Senator Gould is the only Republican in the 69th Congress whose seat...
...Anglo-Saxon requirement has been the besetting sin of the Honors Course in English ever since its institution: It was wholly illogical of the department to make this demand when no similar requirement for extensive knowledge of both Greek and Latin was laid down. These two languages, even to the layman, are obviously of much greater importance in the study and appreciation of English literature than is Anglo-Saxon. The new rule in effect makes Anglo-Saxon voluntary, and so removes the evil...
This fall the Deputations Committee, headed by J. L. Beauchamp Jr. '28, has sent out six teams, containing a total of 20 men. Seven towns have been visited during the past two months: East Bridge-water, Concord, Lincoln, Methuen, North Attleboro, Saugus, and Burlington. In view of the increasing demand throughout the state, a large number of men will go on these trips during the winter and spring...
...many years will any final appraisal of Charles William Eliot's place in American education be made. That inexorable perspective without which no judgment of personal greatness is possible will demand an even longer time before he is given his ultimate niche in the larger history of the American nation. Whatever else he may have been, he was so much a part of the Zeitgeist, of the whole fabric of gradually evolving American national and cultural self-consciousness, that his own biography must be fused with the history of the near-century which his life spanned. And perhaps...